Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:22:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > It has been widely alleged (and is even likely) that Windows got large > parts of the TCP/IP implementation from some BSD implementation, but so > far no proof has appeared. Actually, MS admitted to it. From Win2k on, much of the TCP

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: as long as he keeps the BSD copyright notices in there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! For example the Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. al. It has been widely alleged (and

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:03:12AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >>Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Erik Trulsson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > But remember that several parts

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > >> > >>But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU > >>GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly > >>simplified) you need to incl

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:00:57AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >>faisal gillani wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other > >>>distro & charging only media

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you distribute.) In either case it is certainly allowed to sel

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro & charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country & ordering from Inter

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 04:12, faisal gillani wrote: > Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other > distro & charging only media cost related to it ? > GNU based application are very hard to find here in my > country & ordering from Internet is very expensive, > for a normal user , so i was thi

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > > >Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other > >distro & charging only media cost related to it ? > >GNU based application are very hard to find here in my > >country & ordering from Internet is very

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro & charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country & ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking can i copy my distro Cd's & sell

distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread faisal gillani
Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro & charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country & ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking can i copy my distro Cd's & sell @ media cost in my cou